All women worked as prostitutes for police that particular lifestyle that doesn't
busted into prostitution sting one hundred people arrested going undercover
prostitution stable why style that of course simply want to live below the radar
one case deputies arrested a sixteen year old girl sixteen year old girl arrested
a sixteen year old girl who they think may be
a victim of sex trafficking the safe harbor law states that Minnesota youth where
those under the age of eighteen who engage in prostitution are viewed as victims
and survivors of sexual violence not criminals this law was passed in two thousand
and eleven in two thousand and eleven I was sixteen years old why is arresting
someone who is sixteen the solution how do they even get there I know someone who
has done
a lot of research in this area and maybe they can piece this together for me. Just
trying to get some background here would you mind giving me an academic
background. I have worked in Journalist their own
background but I recently started working with forensic psychology and I've been
doing research in forensic psychology and I've just finished reading
a textbook and present psychology and do
a lot of work and study and human trafficking process. He had any.
History and so you think well apply to this. One of the
images that came to me while studying human trafficking some powerful was repressed
came out of the creation and Lucretia was
a real person and she lived in the Roman era and she had been raped
by. No woman and she could not go back to her husband
or her family she had two choices she could either go live with
a Roman or she commit suicide and her choice was suicide this
is is the kind of thing that women still face and it's
still an issue in human trafficking all over the world women are ducted taken into
human trafficking and. They have nowhere to go so even if they escape
there is there's no hope and they just get into
a cycle and they go back into to prostitution just to live OK so I
students it's very important to get involved and. Understanding.
Politics works in
a situation so what policies do you know about. Relevant to
human trafficking there are new state laws some cases
where instead of the trafficking victim having to get together
a. A lawsuit it would involve civil court
a lawyer very expensive stuff the criminal courts are now including.
Fining the perpetrator either the parable or the the person who is forced into
labor to pay for lost wages or pay fines to the victim so the loss are good in two
ways. They're keeping. The traffickers from getting back in business
and they're helping the victims return to society in
a way that they can hold their head up. To college.
No organizations that have worked to mitigate.
Human trafficking and sex trafficking they face college students there is this
entirely things that are researching this and one is for college students to
realize that some of the one of the biggest organizations polarise that is involved
with keeping up with helping people who are trafficking victims was started by
college students at these Harvard University and they are still active and Harvard
has taken from the students. Created
a trafficking was department and they teach trafficking law there this is
fresh out into I think Georgetown they teach trafficking or some other places too
and it was driven by college students so she very proudly cards check.